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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ce had beenmarked by the utmost cordiality and by nodisagreement. He praised the agreement atParis to accept the principle of the Leagueof Nations, for it is by progress along thatroad that I see the only hope of saving man-kind from a recurrence of the scourge ofwar. He referred to the enthusiastic wel-come accorded to the President of the UnitedStates by all sections of the British people.He expressed his especial satisfaction thatthe self-governing Dominions, and India,were directly represented in the Paris Con-ference. He spoke for the program of socialreform in England, saying among otherthings: We must stop at no sacrifice of in-terest or prejudice to stamp out unmeritedpoverty, to diminish unemployment and miti- H^^^^^^^^hm^^^^^^Ikv ^^^^^^^^^^^h Vii-- ■ g; W^^K^m - ^V^^^^^l ^^ ^^^^^I^^^B^^^^^^H mL Ik^K^ ^^^2 IlKKK PHILIP SCHEIDEMANN(The new Chancellor of (icniiaiiy in tho Rovernment pro-vidcd at Weimar last mouth by the constituent assembly) 238 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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(^ : 1 & Unfierwocd, New V< iK PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE, WHO ADDRESSED LASTMONTH THE NEW BRITISH PARLIAMENT gate its sufferings, to provide decent homes,to improve the Nations health, and to raisethe standard of well-being throughout thecommunity. He referred to the decision tocreate a new ministry of Public Health andalso a Ministry of Ways and Communica-tions, and to various other measures such asthe housing problem, agricultural improve-ment, and land settlement. Never has a kingmade a broader or a more democratic appeal. The Premier ^^- ^loyd Gcorgcs OpeningExpounds speech to the new Parliament ex- to the House j ^.^11 e pressed regret at the absence orMr. Asquith, who had lost his seat afterthirty years of continuous service in theHouse of Commons. He did not think itthe right moment to discuss the work of thePeace Conference, but assured Parliamentthat everything would be laid before it in duetime. He referred to the vast range of theproblems which this Conference had to sett

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